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AFP

"Toiletries, hygiene, maintenance and childcare": the government clarified this Tuesday morning the list of products that supermarkets can continue to sell during confinement, in addition to those already considered essential.

In a decree published in

the Official Journal,

the government indicates that shopping centers and supermarkets "can only welcome the public for activities" which were already authorized, in particular food, newspapers and stationery, construction materials or hardware, "as well as for the sale of toiletries, hygiene, maintenance and childcare products".

The government has left a "tolerance" until Wednesday for the application of the measure.

The limited number of customers in supermarkets

A reception capacity gauge has been put in place which obliges the establishments concerned not to be able to "accommodate a number of customers greater than that allowing each one to reserve an area of ​​4 m2".

The maximum reception capacity must be “displayed and visible from outside” the stores.

In addition, "when local circumstances so require, the prefect of the department can limit the maximum number of customers who can be accommodated in these establishments", specifies the text.

The government specifies in its decree that home activities are authorized on condition that they are also authorized "if they were carried out in establishments open to the public".

This excludes in particular hairdressers at home, as the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire announced on Monday.

Sunday evening, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on TF1 that in the name of "equity" and health security, the government had decided to close non-essential shelves in supermarkets, rather than allowing small ones. shops to reopen.

He had specified that a point would be made "in 15 days and then, above all, at the deadline of December 1 set as the end of this confinement".

The sling had amplified in recent days among small traders, forced to close while supermarkets can remain open.

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